Sadly, Binary Domain turned out to be a total flop, and studio head Toshihiro Nagoshi apparently took it rather personally, as it would be eight years before another Ryu Ga Gotoku-developed game would appear on an Xbox console That honor of course belongs to the sublime franchise prequel known as Yakuza 0, which arrived on Xbox One and Xbox Game Pass in early 2020, almost a full year after it launched on Windows PC (another Microsoft platform, how ironic). As a fan of the series since the 2005 release of the original game on PlayStation 2 in the west, but also harbouring a much stronger affinity with the Xbox ecosystem, I’ve personally been longing to see such an outcome since the game’s famed developer, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio released the cross-platform Sci-Fi title Binary Domain on Xbox 360 way back in 2012. With the Yakuza Remastered Collection making its long-awaited debut in Xbox Game Pass this week, and Yakuza 6: The Song of Life launching into the service late next month, the now 15-year-old Yakuza franchise is one step closer to achieving a historic milestone in the West very soon, all eight of the mainline Yakuza titles (previously exclusive only on PlayStation consoles as a complete series) will be available to play on the Xbox platform.
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